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by AlGoreRhythm 263 days ago
Out of curiosity, how would you rate an LLM’s ability to deal with pointers in C++ code?
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Greenfield project? Claude is fucking great at C++. Almost all aspects of it, really.

Well, not so much the project organization stuff - it wants to stuff everything into one header and has to be browbeaten into keeping implementations out of headers.

But language semantics? It's pretty great at those. And when it screws up it's also really good at interpreting compiler error messages.

If you have lots of pointers, you're writing C, not C++.
Eh, it's a big tent